Facebook Starts Hosting “Instant Articles”

Post by wf » Wed, May 13, 2015, 4:13 PM UTC

emodendroket wrote: post #34

cromwellian wrote: post #13

This seems rather pointless given HTLM5 ServiceWorkers. All of the benefits they're claiming with respect to local prefetching content for offline, instant use can be done with that spec. Even push-message content updates when the mobile browser isn't even running can be achieved. The only missing component is IOS support which might be possible to polyfill in via a hybrid. I'm pretty sure Facebook knows about this,…

Absolutely nobody is avoiding reading articles because they take too long to load but they have to have some sort of positive way of describing it.

Post by ovulator » Wed, May 13, 2015, 4:38 PM UTC

emodendroket wrote: post #34

cromwellian wrote: post #13

This seems rather pointless given HTLM5 ServiceWorkers. All of the benefits they're claiming with respect to local prefetching content for offline, instant use can be done with that spec. Even push-message content updates when the mobile browser isn't even running can be achieved. The only missing component is IOS support which might be possible to polyfill in via a hybrid. I'm pretty sure Facebook knows about this,…

Absolutely nobody is avoiding reading articles because they take too long to load but they have to have some sort of positive way of describing it.

Post by untog » Wed, May 13, 2015, 4:52 PM UTC

p3rp3rtu41 wrote: post #24

Facebook is not my desired source of news. The use case I had for Facebook is based upon it's original premise. Connecting with Friends, seeing what they are up to, where they are and sharing photos. They are littering their platform with features that further dilutes the experience that everyone used to like/love. I despise seeing Buzzfeed and clickbait titles on the site. This is not the content I want to consume h…

Post by spdionis » Wed, May 13, 2015, 4:57 PM UTC

p3rp3rtu41 wrote: post #24

Facebook is not my desired source of news. The use case I had for Facebook is based upon it's original premise. Connecting with Friends, seeing what they are up to, where they are and sharing photos. They are littering their platform with features that further dilutes the experience that everyone used to like/love. I despise seeing Buzzfeed and clickbait titles on the site. This is not the content I want to consume h…

Post by prezjordan » Wed, May 13, 2015, 5:09 PM UTC

emodendroket wrote: post #46

wf wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What? In my experience this has always been true on mobile. If something takes longer than a few seconds to load it gets closed or restarted.

How many news articles take longer than a few seconds to load?